US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 13 for "Center, OTA master, system, distribution method, non-transitory storage medium, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,218, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Center, OTA master, system, distribution method, non-transitory storage medium, and vehicle" was invented by Tomoyasu Ishikawa (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A center includes: one or more processors configured to transmit, to an over-the-air (OTA) master, update data of software of a plurality of electronic control units mounted on a vehicle and information on an update sequence defining a procedure of processing for updating the software, the OTA master including one or more second processors configured to control an update of the software....